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December 10th 2015: Major update, Microsoft has now released drivers for Windows 7 & 8, check Windows Update. Everything appears to be working so far, including vibration!

You need to download the PC Driver Package for the Xbox One controller to work on your pc. Heres the link: http://support.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-one/accessories. This utility contains the only official version for Xbox 360 Wireless Receiver for Windows Driver for Windows XP/7/Vista/8/8.1/10 32-bit and 64-bit versions. Major Nelson made the announcement, offering direct links to download the PC drivers for the Xbox One controller. 'The new PC drivers will enable the Xbox One controller to be used with any game. Compatible with Xbox One X, Xbox One S, Xbox One, Windows 10. Stay on target Experience the enhanced comfort and feel of the new Xbox Wireless Controller, featuring a rubberized diamond grip, responsive thumbsticks, and an enhanced D-pad. Install an Xbox One controller on PC with this driver. By Emanuel Maiberg 2014-03-13T00:48:21.71Z. Microsoft still hasn't released a PC driver for the Xbox One controller.

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I'm currently trying to figure out if it is possible to get the Windows 10 driver to work on Windows 7, here is where I am right now.

Not successful yet and only try this if you want help get it working.

First to get the Windows 10 driver for the Xbox One Wireless Adapter I went to http://catalog.update.microsoft.com using Internet Explorer (as this is the only browser supported for catalog).

There are currently 4 drivers listed for the adapter: http://i.imgur.com/Kaxsfmn.png

If you download them all you'll get:

AMD64-all-20794329_7c5e465b064827612d9289d3c9a26d818f2bcfdc.cab (DriverVer=10/17/2015,20.24.34.491)
AMD64-en-20770008_a4e687fb93fcb19c1bc067d8a51f1c1c32d2c574.cab (DriverVer=08/26/2015,19.29.20.953)
X86-all-20794332_ff018bd1c603d942fb276b19d821b91d2cf9f5fa.cab (DriverVer=10/20/2015,19.53.40.791)
X86-en-20770009_49cb8693fbfbabcf9d62691c771f3661c6caa6f5.cab (DriverVer=08/26/2015,19.16.17.976)

You can actually install the driver if you extract the contents and modify the mt7612us.inf file.

So for example using AMD64-all-20794329_7c5e465b064827612d9289d3c9a26d818f2bcfdc.cab, extracted you will find the following files:

FW_ACC_00U.bin
mt7612us.cat
mt7612us.inf
mt7612us.sys

Edit mt7612us.inf, and modify

also change:

Xbox 1 Controller Driver Unavailable Support

also change

If you plugin your adapter into a Windows 7 system it will be detected as XBOX ACC in the Device Manager: http://i.imgur.com/IqPQ264.png

Right click and update driver, finding the mt7612us.inf file you modified, you'll get a security warning, install anyway. You'll need to restart after.

Once restarted you'll find the driver installed and the adapter listed under Network adapter > Xbox Wireless Adapter for Windows: http://i.imgur.com/5N6QzUD.png (Ignore #8 part, I've tried this a ton of times already).

If you check properties it will list:

Windows cannot start this hardware device because its configuration information (in the registry) is incomplete or damaged. (Code 19)

My guess is that it's related to the xboxgip upper filter mentioned in the mt7612us.inf file

; This installation script supports Xbox Wireless Adapter for Windows. ; It also adds the xboxgip service as an upper filter for the board.

In particular:

[PnPFilterRegistration] HKR,'UpperFilters',0x00010000,'xboxgip'

Next step I have tried is to remove xboxgip as an upper filter. You can find this blogpost explaining lower/upper filters: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/usbcoreblog/archive/2013/12/10/help-after-installing-windows-8-1-my-device-fails-with-error-code-19.aspx

I started up regedit and searched for xboxgip

You'll find it in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetEnumUSBVID_045E&PID_02E6355542 (also in ControlSet001 & ControlSet002 but these are reflected from CurrentControlSet): http://i.imgur.com/H7SjooA.png

If you change the ownership of 355542 you can set Full Control to everyone and delete xboxgip UpperFilter. You'll need to restart again for this to take effect.

Unfortunately you'll see the error now changes to this (inside Device Manager):

Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware. The driver may be corrupted or missing. (Code 39)

Anyways this is as far as I got, it maybe that xboxgip is a requirement, which is a protocol driver in Windows 10: http://batcmd.com/windows/10/services/xboxgip/

It exists in %WinDir%System32drivers as xboxgip.sys, simply moving a copy of it from Windows 10 to Windows 7 doesn't appear to have any affect.

mt7612us.inf also references xboxgip.inf

I'm not sure if it's possible to some how install xboxgip.sys on Windows 7 or Windows 8 and see if it might work, if anyone has found xboxgip.inf please let me know.

I found a link to xboxgip.sys from: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?p=183267908 Here: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=183263051&postcount=293

The following errors are displayed in Windows Logs under System:

I've located xboxgip.inf

Will setup a Win7 virtual machine and try to install it.

Well I tried to install xboxgip.sys via .inf file, modified .inf to NTamd64 & NTx86, [Install] to [DefaultInstall] & Characteristics = 0x20, and while it copies xboxgip.sys to /System32/Drivers/ I don't see any evidence of it actually installing as a service or creating keys in ControlSet. Might be unsigned driver protection, not exactly sure.

Messed around some more on Nov 1st.

I tried installing the driver with 'bcdedit.exe -set TESTSIGNING ON' which disables driver signing, but still getting (Code 39). It seems like mt7612us.sys doesn't want to start, it's possible that it may not be possible to make this work at all. But I'm not exactly sure.

I also tried messing with xboxgip.sys via registry, I exported the exact registry settings it uses in Windows 10.

Xbox 1 Controller Driver Unavailable Windows 7

Having xboxgip.sys configured exactly like on Windows 10 doesn't seem to have much effect at all, my guess at this point is that mt7612us.sys driver is simply failing to run for some reason.

I tested the November 2015 drivers and neither are working, I'm having the same issues as described above.

AMD64-all-20804394_4ce527eafaa278bf5602f65e8333f4a15998a561 (11/3/2015 - 21.50.58.120 212 KB)
X86-all-20804826_ce6df4ae47a944dfa7764f19e8d7442810f21524 (11/15/2015 - 21.34.54.237 - 189 KB)

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Xbox 1 Controller Driver Unavailable Service

***UPDATE: I've narrowed things down a bit. Microsoft removed Xbox One compatibility/drivers from their updates, and the drivers are no longer available from their manual update downloads or from MajorNelson's website. I've already tried installing KB2685811 and KB2685813, but with no actual drivers available, that won't really help anyway. There is one website that some people have claimed has the drivers called TechSpot, but I've never heard of it, and when I looked into it, it apparently doesn't have a squeaky clean record with some users, so that's not gonna happen. But, I think might have found something that could lead to a workaround: on Microsoft update catalogue, after searching 'Xbox One Controller' they have 4 different downloads: 2 32-bit downloads, and 2 64-bit downloads; each one is a cabinet file, and inside includes 4 files: a .dll file, a security catalogue, a system information file, and a system file. I've tried going into device manager and browsing to the file that the catalog download was extracted to, but Windows claims that the device type is unsupported. If anyone knows how to get Windows to recognize a 'new' device type (short name 'Xbox Gaming Device') in device manager, so it will properly install the cabinet file or whichever ones are required, please let me know. I am not sure, so I'm not going to try it, but maybe someone could come up with a workaround with Windows > winsxs folder to add the cabinet file? I'm not going to try it without any guidance (I don't want to corrupt my PC). Thanks for reading, and any help provided would be very appreciated.